The new IRRI moisture testers can help farmers come up with more-informed decisions on safe storage. (Photo: Isagani Serrano, IRRI) Farmers need not crack...

The price of rice has consistently fallen over the last 40 years. Since the beginnings of the Green Revolution in the mid-1960s, the real (inflation-adjusted) price of rice in the world market has been more than halved while global rice production has increased (Figure 1). This movement in price has not been smooth. An upward trend during the oil crisis in 1973-75 was...